Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
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Fat City
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Sep 18, 2009 – Oct 1, 2009
Daily
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- Price
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$11
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"How'd you like to wake up in the morning and be him?" slurs delusional prizefighter Stacy Keach in this late-career tour de force by John Huston, the auteur of life on the ropes. Keach is astounding as the pauper to young Jeff Bridges' aspiring prince in Stockton's minor-league boxing scene, and we're bystanders to a sobering enactment of fact: one must go down for one to go up. A wheezy boozehound played to the desperate hilt by Susan Tyrrell heads a fabulous supporting cast, as master DP Conrad Hall lenses a coulda-been-a-contenda descent that's only decelerated by the murky promise of a comeback.
